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Wow, great replies on this thread - a really interesting read!
I can't quite go as far to say she has totally changed my life or anything but she certainly makes it more enjoyable.
I go through phases of my fandom from being a bit more "obsessed" to just enjoying listening to some of her songs. It's not that I'm any less of a fan, more just I like a lot of other singers and bands too, so go through phases were I listen to them more.
When it comes to Ayu, it's her releases I anticipate the most. The wait for her newest album to be delivered always seems quite a long one, especially when I'm reading everyone's thoughts on it on here! I always enjoy sitting down to watch her newest PVs. (I tend to avoid listening to any of her singles or watching their PVs until I have the album in my hands)
I think Ayu is (almost) the whole package for me - OK her vocals might not always be perfect and a lot of her magazine covers are photoshopped (unecessarily) to an inch of their lives, but her music and music videos are amazing. Now that Hikaru's videos are going downhill, Ayu's are the ones I look forward to the most.
I think she has also become a bigger presence in my life thanks to things like Twitter. There will always be a tweet on my feed when I check it everyday - OK unless it's in English I won't understand it but I like looking at the latest pictures. It's also nice to see how much she acknowledges overseas fans, going as far as asking them too meet her when she's in LA, London etc and then asking for them to tweet her the pictures. It's not like she's going to launch her career in the West, so she really doesn't have to bother tweeting fans in English etc.
I'm not one for lyrics generally, otherwise I wouldn't be listening to songs in a foreign language! They just tend to bypass me in songs, though I am getting better at listening to them sometimes. I like quite a few of Ayu's (see my signature) so I enjoy looking at the translations and they can be quite comforting at times.
Then there's also the music obviously! I like how she has a mix of genres. Uplifting yet nostalgic like Fairyland, ethereal like Ever Free, rock songs, ballads, pop songs. And the interludes. I like how Ayu has her "staples" like her interludes, her adlibs etc.
^This is turning into a "Why I love Ayumi" response. I think the main reason that she means a lot is that she is constant in my life through her releases and presence on Twitter.
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